Chemists at the Drug Enforcement Administration Special Testing and Research Laboratory in Sterling, Va., are charged with the task of testing the deadly drugs brought in by the administration’s ...

Medicinal chemistry, also known as pharmaceutical chemistry, is a branch of chemistry focused on the development of new drugs and the improvement of existing ones. It is an interdisciplinary field ...

This is a guest editorial by Laura Howes, C&EN’s executive editor for life sciences. Welcome to this special issue dedicated to chemistry laboratories around the world. While many C&EN staffers have ...

In 1993, the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (JMC) published similar numbers of papers by chemists working in industry and by those in academia. Three decades on, the figures have changed drastically: ...

Chemists have synthesized a highly complex natural molecule through a new strategy of functionalizing normally inert carbon-hydrogen (C-H). The journal Science has published the breakthrough. Led by ...

An autonomous laboratory assistant that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to cook up new materials has come under fire from researchers who dispute its discoveries. But after digging into ...

Computational Chemistry is the study of complex chemical problems using a combination of computer simulations, chemistry theory and information science. Also called cheminformatics, this field enables ...

Chemistry professor emeritus Martin Karplus '51 speaks to the media in the Harvard University Chemistry Library in 2013, just hours after the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that he had ...